Meal Photos

Hot Dogs, Fried Eggs and Potato

Beef hot dogs, three fried eggs, a small potato, butter. I am on maintenance hence the occasional higher carbs (~46 total grams; hot dogs + potato). Note: A cooked, cooled potato has resistant starch which feeds the friendly bacteria in your intestine and increases the production of short-chain fatty acids like butyrate. Butyrate feeds the…

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Pan-fried Breaded Smelt and Salad (Recipe Link)

Pan-fried, breaded, wild-caught lake smelt. Wow, like eating fish and chips in one dish… so yummy, so crispy! Romaine lettuce salad with red onion, red pepper, baby tomatoes, cucumbers, Ranch dressing. These are whole smelt; no need to clean them, you just eat the entire little fishies; you can’t even tell they have bones or…

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Instant Pot Beef Stew (Recipe Link)

Instant Pot beef stew with onions, celery and carrots. I’m on maintenance and experimenting occasionally with a few extra carbs, hence the carrots. This is a lovely stew! You can leave out the carrots and use mushrooms or other low carb veggies instead. Original recipe is from Amy and Jacky. They do a lot of…

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Cheeseburgers and Salad

Air-fried cheeseburgers (4 oz each) and Romaine lettuce salad with red onion, red pepper, baby tomatoes, a few raspberries, Balsamic mayo (1/2 T mayo, 1/2 T Balsamic salad dressing). I actually ate four burgers (see photo below). This was a delicious meal!

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Potato and Sardine Hash

Sardine and potato hash, with three boiled eggs for extra protein. For those of you who need a lower carb count, I make something imilar with Konjak noodles which is really delicious, but much lower in carbs.

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